Quotes About Points In Life

#1. there are many points in life when we cannot see what awaits us around the corner, and it is precisely at such times, when our path forward is unclear, that we must bravely keep our nerve, resolutely putting one foot before the other as we march blindly into the dark.

Richard C. Morais

#2. There are points in life when you listen to common sense and there are times when you follow instinct; sometimes, you ignore both and just act on belief.

Aden Jamison Leirer

#3. You don't get any points in life for doing things the hard way.

Tim Fargo

#4. You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

Lauren Oliver

#5. You need bravery for compassion. In the picture of your soul, the bravery points are the most beautiful.

Amit Ray

#6. As we gaze upon the wonders of creations, we look up towards the heights of a God who is merciful in His ways and magnificent in His deeds. The life of worship always points us upwards.

Matt Redman

#7. Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.

Aidan Chambers

#8. Truth: last week I online shopped too much. Then I ate 2 pounds of jelly beans to feel better about that. In fact, while I was trying to read soul-nourishing things all I could think about was shopping and jellybeans. Points to the monkey mind.

Anna White

#9. I have not yet learned to use our television DVR. One of the points of marriage is that you split labor. In the olden days that meant one hunted and one gathered; now it means one knows where the tea-towels are kept and the other knows how to program the DVR, for why should we both have to know?

Elizabeth Alexander

#10. Wonder is that possession of the mind that enchants the emotions while never surrendering reason. It is a grasp on reality that does not need constant high points in order to be maintained, nor is it made vulnerable by the low points of life's struggle.

Ravi Zacharias

#11. While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster.

Vladimir Nabokov

#12. Every film I've made has a kind of frustrated love story in the center of it. They were people who saw life from opposing points of view, which has been in every film I've ever done. It had all the ingredients of the kinds of films I like to do.

Sydney Pollack

#13. Nuclear episodes stand out in bold print in life story as narrative high points, low points and turning points, explaining how the person has remained the same and how he or she has changed over time.

Dan P. McAdams

#14. The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying in the 5th standard. I was granted this scholarship for achieving academic excellence, and it continues to be one of the high points in my life.

Pankaj Patel

#15. You cannot pursue all your goals simultaneously or satisfy all your desires at once. And it's an emotional drain to think you can. Instead, you must focus on long-term fulfillment rather than short-term success and, at various points in your life, think carefully about your priorities.

Eric C. Sinoway

#16. Photography is about a single point of a moment. It's like stopping time. As everything gets condensed in that forced instant. But if you keep creating these points, they form a line which reflects your life.

Nobuyoshi Araki

#17. Some of the more popular life-centers for teens include Friends, Stuff, Enemies, Self, and Work. They each have their good points, but they are all incomplete in one way or another, and they'll mess you up if you center your life on any one of them to the exclusion of the others.

Sean Covey

#18. I think that I am lucky and blessed to have the job that I have. I'm trying to create longevity. If that means that I transition and do different things at different points in my life, then that's fine.

Katee Sackhoff

#19. So long as we see the stones and joints, and are not deceived as to the points of support in any piece of architecture, we may rather praise than regret the dexterous artifices which compel us to feel as if there were fibre in its shafts and life in its branches.

John Ruskin

#20. Mark my words - you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life's stream will be broken up into whirl and tumult, foam and noise: either you will be dashed to atoms on crag points, or lifted up and borne on by some master-wave into a calmer current - as I am now.

Charlotte Bronte

#21. So, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer's career and that we shouldn't worry about what we're not but to try to focus on what we are and what we do know.

John Updike

#22. It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions, which force consideration upon the careless, and seriousness upon the light, points of time where one course of action ends and another begins.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#23. I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.

Catherine Deneuve

#24. What has to be accepted, the given, is forms of life.' (Wittgenstein) This is the fact, the given, from which all thinking must start; and thinking, which starts from this fact, is in turn itself but another form of life.

William Barrett

#25. In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are only uncovered later, by historians who seek to bring order to a lifetime of tangled moments.

Kate Morton

#26. In life, there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way you measure distance between two points. "Time" doesn't pass.

Paulo Coelho

#27. It doesn't matter whether you believe in Christ, Moses, Allah, Brahma, Buddha, or any other being or master. Each one of us has our own beliefs, our own point of view. There are billions of different points of view, but it's the same force of life behind each one of us.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#28. When your self and your life belong to your being, your self opens, your life opens, your being comes in, and it will have everything. It is the single greatest turning point in your life.

John De Ruiter

#29. There is a rare exception of mainstream sports that have a fatality rate. That's motor sports and rodeo, ... football, baseball, basketball, hockey, you make a mistake and you give up a run or some points. In these two sports, if you make a mistake, it could cost you your life.

Don Andrews

#30. Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Henry Miller

#31. I think of fiction as the highest calling. I'm kind of addicted to it. It's the thing that has gotten me through all the hard points in my life.

Ruth Reichl

#32. Where are the marks of the cross in your life? Are there any points of identification with your Lord? Alas, too many Christians wear medals but carry no scars.

Vance Havner

#33. Individuals score points, but teams win games. This is true in athletic events and in life. If you make it in life, your "team" of parents, teachers, ministers, etc., will have played a major role in your success.

Zig Ziglar

#34. The Bible is a guidebook in the journey of life, and the only one that points the way to Heaven.

D.L. Moody

#35. My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me.

Barbara Kingsolver

#36. For every man, there is a way to happiness in every point of his life! The door to happiness is always open; there is no such a thing to miss the entry! All points are entry points to happiness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#37. Satan will tempt you with many things in life, but the most powerful is the temptation to be grateful for what you have, when it is not the best life God had to offer you.

Shannon L. Alder

#38. We're all just a part of this large, spiraling, constantly fluid hierarchy and changing. At some points in your life, you feel crushed by that, depending on who you come in contact with.

Victoria Chang

#39. There are turning points in everyone's life when we have to fight, even if we have to do it by ourselves and in public.

Junius Williams

#40. Jean Valjean disconcerted him. All the axioms which had served him as points of support all his life long, had crumbled away in the presence of this man. Jean Valjean's generosity towards him, Javert, crushed him.

Victor Hugo

#41. you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life's stream will be broken up into whirl and tumult, foam and noise: either you will be dashed to atoms on crag points, or lifted up and borne on by some master-wave into a calmer current - as

Charlotte Bronte

#42. For the Christian tradition, the heart's true home is a life rooted in the love of God. Like Lao-tzu and Dorothy both, Christian wisdom about stability points us toward the true peace that is possible when our spirits are stilled and our feet are planted in a place we know to be holy ground.

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

#43. What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

Salman Rushdie

#44. I write about love and family a lot, because I'm always trying to figure those things out. At different points in my life, just when I think I've finished writing about it, the dynamics shift, and then I have a whole new set of questions and worries and misunderstandings to wrestle with.

Sarah Kay

#45. The great epochs of our life are at the points when we gain courage to rebaptize our badness as the best in us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#46. You're supposed to take a second if life is going well, to enjoy it and not just move on with the rest of your day worrying about the next thing. And it's a really trite point in some ways. But it's bizarre how little I had done it at various points in my life.

Domhnall Gleeson

#47. First person to appreciate the good points of others is always special in life as he or she manifests his or her leadership through initiatives.

Anuj

#48. In real life things don't go so smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution, the person who knocks at our door is, more likely than not, a messenger bearing bad news.

Haruki Murakami

#49. There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

Kris Kristofferson

#50. They are thought pictures -- the outstanding headlands of the meandering shores of life, and are points to steer by on the broad sea of thought and experience. They body forth in living forms and colors the ever varying lights and shadows of the soul.

Frederick Douglass

#51. We will all go through low valleys in our lifetime. Don't let them destroy you. Let these low points lead you to the higher mountains in your life.

Timothy Pina

#52. There are moments you wait for. And then there are moments you wait for. Moments you spend every other moment preparing for. Points of your life that click and turn. Push you in a completely new direction.

Ryan Graudin

#53. The elderly man, flushed with pleasure, was recounting in voluble fashion his experiences and impressions. His wife joined in periodically, with meticulous corrections involving completely unimportant points; these being given and taken in the best of humor.

Isaac Asimov

#54. The author points out that, with life in provincial Washington difficult for those not of independent means, Adams and his wife undervalued the social connections that others found vital. They often made an impression as distant and prideful.

Paul C. Nagel

#55. If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize others and more likely to empathize with them.

Steven Pinker

#56. Every person, I have come to believe, has a moment or a place in life when all four points of the compass converge, from when or where their life finally takes--for better or for worse--its fated course.

Peter Geye

#57. In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In American culture, kids in books, TV shows and movies constantly score points with their snappy back talk. Typically, it's the parents who need to be taught a life lesson - by their children.

Amy Chua

#58. I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.

John Frusciante

#59. Two human beings are like globes, which can touch only in a point, and, whilst they remain in contact, all other points of each of the spheres are inert; their turn must also come, and the longer a particular union lasts, the more energy of appetency the parts not in union acquire.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#60. One day, someone who'll understand your good points and bad points, but who'll love you just the same, will appear in your life. Mark my words!

Sakura Tsukuba

#61. A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student can find meaning and joy in life.

Pope Francis

#62. I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never be bored of it.

Amy Winehouse

#63. It's so much easier to measure life in experience points.

Felicia Day

#64. Life is a very terrible thing, mostly, with points of wonder and beauty. Most of what makes it terrible, though, is simply that there's so much of it, blaring in through the five senses.

Samuel R. Delany

#65. Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?

Gael Garcia Bernal

#66. I consider myself a person like everyone else, and I take my time writing my records because I feel like it captures more of who I am. You have a much greater chance of hitting on themes and points ... that could play into someone else's life in a larger way.

Andrew McMahon

#67. I have followed my heart my whole life - the crazy kid, a contrarian by nature, and I've been in trouble in points in my career.

Sarah Carter

#68. With marriage and fatherhood, I've finally found two fixed points in my life. They've taught me patience. They've also taught me that I don't need to feel guilty about being happy. My emotional seasons are less extreme.

Pete Wentz

#69. Differences in experience, points of view and opinions aren't what pulls us apart. It's what pulls us together.

Tracee Ellis Ross

#70. It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.

Napoleon Hill

#71. John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.

John Taliaferro

#72. At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality.

James McGreevey

#73. Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.

Agnes Repplier

#74. I do think you need different primary kinds of love at different points in your life.

Kate Arrington

#75. When someone points out your past mistakes, look at them dead in the eyes and follow with, 'and I'd do it all again to have the life I have now.

Dan Pearce

#76. It's about running wild in a field of exclamation points chasing question marks

Natasha Tsakos

#77. I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realise that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis.

Michael Sheen

#78. All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.

Sophie Swetchine

#79. I'd never really been in a series, where you see a man at different points and perspectives in his life. Usually it's a film, where I'm playing a character who just comes in and offers something up.

Ciaran Hinds

#80. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a sign of a good novel. Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.

Alan Lightman

#81. It's odd, though, what makes you think about the truth. It's so rarely involved in the events of your life. I quit thinking about the truth for a time then. Its finer points seems impossible to find among the facts.

Richard Ford

#82. There are good points about all ... wars. People forget self. The virtues of magnanimity, courage, patriotism, etc., are called into life. People are more generous, more sympathetic, better, than when engaged in the more selfish pursuits of peace.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#83. The lecturer points to Dietrich Bonhoeffer's decision to get engaged while in prison as his "positive statement that life will go on," his affirmation of the power of love.

J. Rufus Fears

#84. Remain aware of your weak points; not knowing or choosing to ignore them, means creating dangerous 'blind-spots' in the path to your success.

Archibald Marwizi

#85. God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

C.S. Lewis

#86. At various points in our lives, or on a quest, and for reasons that often remain obscure, we are driven to make decisions which prove with hindsight to be loaded with meaning. (225)

Swami Satchidananda

#87. I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage.
I've found that just surviving is a noble fight.
I once believed in causes too; I had my pointless points of view.
And life went on no matter who as wrong or right.

Billy Joel

#88. There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points and heartbreaks only make sense as we look back, rather than as we are experiencing them. So we might as well live life as if - as the poet Rumi put it - everything is rigged in our favor.

Arianna Huffington

#89. Life does not favor the fearful nor does it reward the reluctant; it embraces and elevates those willing to climb in spite of their fear and willing to try in the mocking face of failure. It gives bonus points to those who fall flat, get up and climb again.

Toni Sorenson

#90. We can trust the Bible because it points us to the most important events in human history: the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Billy Graham

#91. All scripture points to one thing: life is about God. The process of moving from confused wandering to purpose and joy is marked by faith, by waiting on the Lord in ready obedience.

Ken Wytsma

#92. The lowest points in our life teaches us to reach our higher self,
the higher self teaches us not to forget the lowest points.

Steven Aitchison

#93. Cletus takes a sizeable gulp from the bottle, then points at Arden. You'd learn something from that one, boy. She's a hard worker. A survivor. Gets things done. That girl doesn't know it, but she's going places in life.

Anna Banks

#94. Everybody feels like [a misfit] at different points in their life. If you feel like who you are is right for you, then you are beautiful.

Marilyn Manson

#95. One of the lowest points in my life was when I was diagnosed and combated with severe ulcerative colitis which is severe ulcers in you colon that bleed.

John Assaraf

#96. Meditate on your own and refine your consciousness. Tighten up your life. Constantly examine your life and look for weak points. You know what's going on in your life.

Frederick Lenz

#97. There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

Jack Nicholson

#98. In the history of history, there has never been someone with your particular genetic make-up or life experiences. This being the case, we have no reference points with which to compare ourselves, and therefore it is futile to attempt to measure yourself relative to others.

Chris Matakas

#99. I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just ... in between.

Jim Morrison

#100. Harper Collins gave me a letter of intent saying that they want me to pen down my autobiography. When I was recollecting the incidents of my life for that, I selected only those incidents which were turning points in my life. I staged it instead of writing it.

Anupam Kher